European Southern Observatory (ESO) benefits from disk storage systems from the Fujitsu ETERNUS DX400 S2 series

"A space telescope places extremely high demands on a storage system. After the comparison of different systems, the unrivalled performance and cost-benefit ratio of the ETERNUS DX models made the scales tip in favor of Fujitsu."

Alessio Checcucci
ALMA Archive, European Southern Observatory

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the preeminent European science and technology organization in astronomy and operates the scientifically most productive observatory in the world.

The challenge:

To create a safe harbor for valuable research data captured, for instance, by the ALMA network of radio telescopes in the Chilean Atacama desert. The site produces one Terabyte per day requiring fast replication.